Winners, grinners and sinners at Penton IT&T Awards

The awards covered 44 categories, recognising excellence in the provision of IT products and services, voted for by IT professionals using an online voting form conducted by AC Nielsen, to guarantee voting integrity.

“We received over 13,000 online votes for these awards,” said Paul Osborne, MD of Penton Media. “These awards truly recognise the leaders in each field, voted for by the people who use their products and services.”

“It was an outstanding night and truly set the standard for industry awards,” said Osborne. The event will return in 2003.

The sell-out event was hosted by ABC personality Tony Squires, and after dinner entertainment was provided by Sydney crooner, Frank Bennett.

As well as the product and service awards, there were awards for the best CIOs, best innovative use of IT, and three IT industry leaders were inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of their outstanding service to the industry.

And the winners were …

IT&T User Award Winners

(Sponsored by Fujitsu)

CORPORATE CIO

NOMINEES: Bob McKinnon, Commonwealth Bank

Fiona Balfour, Qantas

John Loebenstein St George Bank

WINNER BOB MCKINNON, Commonwealth Bank

GOVERNMENT CIO

NOMINEES: Valda Berzins, CIO Australia Post

Jeff Smith, CIO Telstra

Jane Treadwell, CIO Centrelink

WINNER VALDA BERZINS, Australia Post

IT USER CORPORATE

NOMINEES: Woolworths, TABCORP, Qantas

WINNER: QANTAS

IT USER GOVERNMENT

NOMINEES: Australian Tax Office, Customs, Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources

WINNER AUSTRALIAN TAX OFFICE

IT USER SME

NOMINEES: Ausregistry, Polytech Doors, The College of Law

WINNER AUSREGISTRY

Hall of Fame Inductees

(Sponsored by Air New Zealand)

LIONEL SINGER

ROGER ALLEN

ANN MOFFATT

IT&T Awards - Winners

Hardware vendors

(Sponsored by Oracle)

Desktops/Workstations:

Hewlett-Packard

Notebook Computers:

Toshiba

Servers:

Hewlett-Packard

Voice and Data Networking:

Cisco Systems

Monitors:

Sony

Printers:

Hewlett-Packard

Mobile Devices:

Nokia

Storage:

EMC

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Best Support & Service:

Hewlett-Packard

Software vendors

(Sponsored by CNBC)

Application Development Tools:

Microsoft

Middleware:

Microsoft

Database Management Systems:

Microsoft SQL

Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing:

Oracle

Network and Systems Management:

Hewlett-Packard

Storage Management Software:

Veritas

Security & Privacy Software:

Symantec

Customer Relationship Management:

Siebel

Enterprise Resource Planning Software:

SAP

Supply Chain Management Software:

SAP

Collaborative Software:

Microsoft Exchange:

Financial Software:

MYOB

Operating Systems:

Microsoft

Best Support & Service:

Microsoft

Distribution Channel

(Sponsored by CRN magazine)

Distributor, Small:

Dicker Data

Distributor, Large:

Tech Pacific

Reseller:

Harris Technology

Retailer:

Harris Technology

Telecommunications Reseller:

Telstra

Developer:

Powerlan

System Integrator:

Dimension Data

ISP:

Telstra

Best Partnership Program:

Hewlett-Packard

Services

(Sponsored by Cisco Systems)

Outsourcer:

IBM GSA

Big 5 Consultant:

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

IT Consultants:

IBM GSA

Data Network Services Provider:

Telstra